DISQUS

The Moderate Voice: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

  • TheGrandPanjandrum · 5 months ago
    With the ongoing purification of the GOP, and the possibility of a Palin candidacy in 2012, that is going to leave the GOP VP nominee pool wittled down to Michelle Bachmann, Eric Cantor, and a 7th round draft pick to be named later if Ben Stein can't be talked into living in government housing.
  • GreenDreams · 5 months ago
    Why the continued focus on Palin? Her supporters still think she is THE rising star in the GOP. In the absence of any clear leadership in the party, she's still seen as a contender. Her supporters angrily denounce her critics and are probably determined to run her for president. Her detractors find her such an easy target, and delight in rubbing GOP noses in the fact that they thought, and still think, she's presidential timber. Some of us on the left would LOVE to see the GOP run her. Again and again.
  • AustinRoth · 5 months ago
    GD - yes, what a shining light of competence Joe Biden has brought to the office of Vice-President instead.

    Actually, when you get down to it, the recent history of VP's, with the exception of Reagan/Bush I and Clinton/Gore, has been dismal.
  • jasperjava · 5 months ago
    There's an interesting dynamic. Palin is obviously a potential disaster if she were in a position of power, capable of inflicting serious damage. Those who realize this speak out, and her blind followers react by thinking that we're "scared" of her. Well, anyone in their right mind should be scared of the possibility of Sarah Palin as President, but we have enough faith in the American people to hope that this couldn't happen. Her fans send more money to her PAC, and Democrats can legitimately hope that she gets nominated: she would easily be demolished by Obama. Still, it's like having a bullet in the chamber of a revolver, playing Russian roulette. What if something happened and she actually WON? After all, a borderline imbecile like George W. B*sh DID get "elected", in a manner of speaking, and look where that led us.
  • Father_Time · 5 months ago
    HA! Dumb and Dumber on the same ticket.

    Palin is never going to be President or Vice President. The only one that don't know this is Palin.
  • shannonlee · 5 months ago
    There are millions of Palin supporters under the delusion that she can be elected President. She is far too conservative to ever be elected to the highest office.

    It is a bit odd for me to see the same people that helped select the woman, now tear her down. They are basically admitting to doing a terrible job as campaign advisors. Had they done their homework, she would have never been an option in the first place.
  • AustinRoth · 5 months ago
    Hmm. Staffers for the losing candidate lashing out at the running mate.

    THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS!!!!!

    It is obvious she is the Anti-Christ.
  • GreenDreams · 5 months ago
    nice try AR. Biden is not a laughing stock. cmon, you're not a Palin fan are you? Maybe so. Anyway, just proves my point. If you think Biden comes even remotely close to being divisive and lame and polarizing as Palin, well you KNOW you have my support to nominate her for the presidency.
  • AustinRoth · 5 months ago
    GD - I thought you paid enough attention to know that I am FAR from a Palin fan, from the word go. That doesn't mean I cannot see the silliness in the continued efforts to tear her down, though. Hell, she gets more attention from the Left than from the Right.

    And Biden is too a laughing stock.
  • antifederalist · 5 months ago
    Biden is not a laughing stock? You don't get out much, do you?

    http://giovanniworld.files.wordpress.com/2008/1...
  • DLS · 5 months ago
    "It is obvious she is the Anti-Christ."

    "Hell, she gets more attention from the Left than from the Right."

    And as you caricature it so well, it is so routinely _pathological_ from the Left. (Lefty S.O.P.)


    As for McCain, as with his recent comments about Obama on Iran (responded to strangely and wrongly on this lefty site, naturally) -- McCain is weak, as weak as the statements he makes about Obama, as weak as his campaign was, as weak as he was as a candidate (weak as a "conservative," after all).



    As for Obama and the Demmies in Congress and in Obama's executive-branch menagerie, they should sometime begin to exercise self-control and even some intelligence; they cannot rely on Dim-vote forever acquiescence to continued rushing to gross excess on every issue they can name or identify to shove the nation far too leftward without any attention to fiscal propriety or often without paying financial attention at all. It's not going to continue comfortably forever.
  • DLS · 5 months ago
    "If you think Biden comes even remotely close to being divisive and lame and polarizing as Palin"

    Lame, arguably more so. Biden the buffoon in the limelight has been kept muzzled for everybody's good.

    Divisive? Palin's "divisiveness" (as with the GOP) is largely fictitious, created for various reasons or "reasons" mainly by the Left (making divisive remarks that include charges the GOP is divisive)
  • GreenDreams · 5 months ago
    Good and fine. As I expected, you guys will circle the wagons around Palin, which suits me just fine.

    A method that political scientists use for gauging ideology is to compare the annual ratings by the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) with the ratings by the American Conservative Union (ACU). Biden has a lifetime liberal 72 percent score from the ADA through 2004, while the ACU awarded Biden a lifetime conservative rating of 13 percent through 2008. Using another metric, Biden has a lifetime average liberal score of 77.5 percent, according to a National Journal analysis that places him ideologically among the center of Senate Democrats.

    works for me...
  • AustinRoth · 5 months ago
    GD -

    A) I have never circled the wagons around Palin

    B) I didn't comment on Biden's ideology; I commented on his buffoonery. I believe he is the model for the new clowns at the Ringling Bros' circus.
  • tidbits · 5 months ago
    The day Obama announced Biden as his running mate, I was on the golf course. From that day to this, those in our foursome refer to mis-hits as "Bidens".

    The day McCain announced Palin as his running mate, I took up smoking again, knowing I wouldn't want to live if she ever became president.

    After the lapses in judgment by both candidates in their vice presidential picks, all I can say is thank god for write-in ballots.
  • skippy · 5 months ago
    anyone who knows my blog knows i am no palin fan.

    but i tend to agree w/melissa @ shakesville that the article was rife w/sexism and a lot of unnecessary put downs because palin was a woman.

    one of melissa's best points is that the ambition that purdum cites as a questionable trait in palin would never be mentioned about a male candidate; what's wrong w/a politico having ambition?

    also, the imagery purdum uses: it came from wasilla, little shop of horrors (get it? palin's a monster! yeeks!), she needed a "horse whisperer," things that, i wonder, would purdum write about a male politician?

    i disagree w/the overboard poltiical correctness @ shakesville often times (i personally thought the bit about palin's relatives making billy carter and roger clinton look good was hilarious), but this time i felt melissa was spot on.

    did we really need to contemplate that palin is fertile? is that really something that needs attention? aren't most male politicians of an age where they could father a child? what's that about, some hormonal imbalance we need to take into account when dealing w/palin?

    i loathe sarah palin for her smallness, her pettiness, her willingness to destroy perceived enemies, and her unwillingness to acknowledge reality.

    but i don't loathe her for being a woman. can't we have a profile, either from the right or left, that doesn't treat palin's sex as some sort of carnival side show to be gawked at?
  • GreenDreams · 5 months ago
    AR, I know you're not a fanboy, or you'd surely have to relinquish the "unnervingly moderate" crown. Of course you're meandering close to the line on your Biden point, though of course both of us have more illustrious achievements and if people just got a clue about our brilliance, they'd pad our c.v. with stuff like longest serving Senator and VP. Besides, neither of us would ever 'misspeak' or have any foot-in-mouth moments.
  • AustinRoth · 5 months ago
    Neither longevity as a Senator (Strom Thurmond) nor being VP (Dan Quayle) has any bearing on or is an indicator of intelligence.
  • davemartin7777 · 5 months ago
    If Palin wants a political future, she's going to have to make an appearance on "Meet the Press" sooner or later.

    Biden's been on MTP three times from what I've googled.

    What are the odds of Palin's handlers allowing her to do MTP... slim and none?

    Palin on MTP would be pure comedy gold.
  • DLS · 5 months ago
    "A) I have never circled the wagons around Palin"

    Nobody here has. This was just another illogical or downright fictitious and spontaneous-emotional charge from the other side.
  • DLS · 5 months ago
    "If Palin wants a political future, she's going to have to make an appearance on "Meet the Press" sooner or later."

    She shouldn't _have_ to (as no show, especially a Washington "institution," should ever have such clout), but in today's reality, of course she should. She's either not for real or is being protected (why?) if not.
  • plpool · 5 months ago
    I find it amazing the rip's on Sarah Palin after all this time. It must be true. She really is a threat. McCain is a would be wanta be President. He would not have got the votes He got if he had not brought in Palin. As far as Vice President Biden and the Democratic Leadership we are seeing now in Congress, I would not be boasting on how poor Palin is. The People of America both Democrat's, Republicans, Independents are giving the Majority all F's for a grade. 2010 election should be interesting.